Terrorists in Iraq hold American action figure hostage

[Hayoo]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...p/iraq_soldier

[Ivan]

Ok Hayoo, lets get a squad together. We got to get our boy back!

[Red October]

If you look at the "wall" he's resting back on and then look just right to the flag and just underneath the "gun", you can see the tell tale space of a cinder block. If you then look at where it "connects" to the floor, the outline is dead obvious that its a cinder block.

[Hayoo]

Originally Posted by Ivan

Ok Hayoo, lets get a squad together. We got to get our boy back!

Lock and load. We'll rescue his plastic ass in no time and return him to his collector's edition figure box.

[Biohazzard56]

Silly terrorists dont have piccanty rails on their guns.

[Hayoo]

Originally Posted by Biohazzard56

Silly terrorists dont have piccanty rails on their guns.

Well the story goes that they were pointing his own gun at his head. What gaves it away is that you can't see any hands holding the gun properly.

...plus the fact that in the larger picture Reuters posted you could see the hair looked like plastic.

[Biohazzard56]

Originally Posted by Hayoo

Well the story goes that they were pointing his own gun at his head. What gaves it away is that you can't see any hands holding the gun properly.

...plus the fact that in the larger picture Reuters posted you could see the hair looked like plastic.

You can still see the vertical grip, and they cant hold the grip in the first place. How do you hold a fully loaded M4 with a SOPMOD rail with one hand. You dont.

[Hayoo]

Found the original picture:

[Firefly]

Okay, it's "Picatinny". And I can hold an M4 SOPMOD with one hand. Anyone with decent strength can. Especially when your M4 doesn't even have any components from the KRAS on there.

As far as the picture, from an expert standpoint:

One, the M4 pictured is sporting a 15-round magazine. We haven't used 15-round magazines since just after Vietnam. Although one time in Basic, we were using a handful of them just because it was the end of the fiscal year and budgeting constraints meant that we got the leftover old shit.

Two, the BDUs are wrong.

Three, the boots are wrong, unless the dumbass has actually drawn lines on them (and for most soldiers, you're going to get your ass fried by higher-ups for illegal modifications of government property) and placed unauthorized soles on the boots.

Four, the tac-vest is wrong. We don't have gear with that color scheme, unless - again - it's an illegal modification.

Five - only a tactically-stupid retread is going to hold a hostage who's wearing a bulky vest with a lot of pockets that may contain a weapon. And say what you will about our adversarial threats in Iraq, but they are far from stupid.

Six - the uniform has no identifying unit or sleeve features, such as a patch, a flag, a combat patch, Air Force rank, etc. That sterilized-fatigue garbage is Hollywood horseshit, unless you're spec-ops. And no spec-ops guy is going to be taken alive unless he's a fucking sissy, in which case they should have shot the SOB on sight.

Seven - I may be wrong, but I can only see the small picture - his tac-vest looks like there are at least six flashbangs/pyro/grenades hanging off it. A, that shit doesn't happen like that in real life unless you're a n00b rambo wanna-be and B, see number five.

[Biohazzard56]

I can hold it in one hand but its stupid because for me, I cant get sight picture like that. The M4 I have isnt real steel, its Airsoft but it weighs 6 1/2 pounds, because its full metal. The only plastic part is the handguards.

[Hamma]

I can't believe this actually came out as a real story

[Ivan]

That's the media for ya...